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Extent

2 cu. ft. (4 Boxes): 35 Items

Biography/History

John W. Landon was born in Kentucky in 1937. He authored numerous books on pipe organs and the people who play them. He was hired as an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Kentucky in 1971.He was made an Associate Professor of Social Work in 1974 and full Professor in 1987. Dr Landon was appointed Assistant Dean of the College of Social Work in 1985 and retired in 1998.

Scope and Content

The collection is comprised of 35 1/4" reel to reel audio tapes. They contain Sen Alben Barkley's last speech, Will Rogers commentaries, various Oral History Project tapes that include speeches by Woodrow Wilson, The Duke of Windsor, William Jenning Bryan, Lindburgh's speech to the DC Press Club, Bertam Russell Nobel prize acceptance speech, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Taft, the only known recording of Thomas Edison, the coronation of George VI and "The History of Recorded Sound" series.

Bainbridge Colby, Pres. Wilson's Sec. of State, speaking on "Loyalty." in 1920; Edison tells about inventing the phonograph, recorded in 1927; Sir Arthur Sullivan sends a message to Edison on his invention, recorded in 1888 (P.T.: 7 min), [n.d.]